e-Discovery (Clearwell, Discovery Collector and Discovery Accelerator)
Does anyone know if Symantec will only be supporting a single e-Discovery product in the future? As of now; it seems like on of these products provide more features than others. However; each of them has something specific that the others don't have which makes it difficult to use without assuring it is integrated with Enterprise Vault Archived data.
Example:
- Discovery Collector: Can expand ZIP files and PST files to allow them to be searchable?
- “Clearwell” cannot search within ZIP files and PST files, but it provides various functionality when searching or producing items that “Discovery Collector” or “Discovery Accelerator” does not provide.
- “Discovery Accelerator” cannot search within ZIP files and PST files and formats for producing items is less than what “Clearwell” provides.
However,
- If the e-discovery Life Cycle includes “Enterprise Vault” data; then “Discovery Accelerator” will be able to search within PST and ZIP files whether data was archived using Enterprise Vault functionality, or copied using Discovery Collector data into an Enterprise Vault archive.
- If the e-discovery Life Cycle includes “Enterprise Vault” data; then “Clearwell” Legal Hold functionality (Once the NEXT release is available) will truly apply “Legal Hold” functionality as it can be applied without notifying the “end user” that a litigation is undergoing. I find it to be a “Security Risk” if a user is under investigation, and we are notifying them to not DELETE data during the “Identification” and “Preservation” steps using “Clearwell” without “Enterprise Vault”. Do you agree? This may be a misunderstanding on how it works at my end.
Also,
Does anyone know an estimated date on when the next “Clearwell” release will be available to allow “Legal Hold” on Enterprise Vault archived data?
Thanks,
Dennis
You can expect Discovery Collector to be EOL very soon.
In regards to Clearwell not searching within zip files, I think you are mistaken. The following is from the Admin docs:
"In container extraction, container files (such as ZIP and RAR files) are examined and have their contained files extracted and processed as individual files for analysis, review, and production."
I have heard from reliable and many sources that the EV integration with Clearwell will be released this quarter. This will allow Clearwell to search EV archives, do direct collection from EV, and do in place legal holds.
I imaging DA will continued to be sold but not emphasized as much. I think DA will continue to have a place in the market for smaller companies or ones that don't need as a robust eDiscovery tool.